THE WEEK CROSSWORD 1053

An Ettinger Bridle Hide travel pass holder and two Connell Guides will be given to the sender of the first correct solution to the crossword and the clue of the week opened on Monday 8 May. Send it to: The Week Crossword 1053, 2nd floor, 32 Queensway, London W2 3RX, or email the answers to crossword@theweek.co.uk. Tim Moorey (www.timmoorey.info)

ACROSS

1 Starter that should contain eggs? (5-4,4) 9 Dad’s heard as normal (3) 10 John in Regent Street (5) 11 Tidy new shed bolted down? (5) 12 Not running, drop in surprisingly around noon (3-4) 13 Callas stirred a famous house (2,5) 14 New copies of body parts (5) 16 Fenced with royal support by the sound of it (9) 18 Chemist on net showing what gives footwear a lift (9) 20 Almost a mouthful in code (5) 21 Bums are seen from behind in tattered clothing (7) 23 Every bell rung one heard, nothing missed out (3,4) 25 Quiet corporation backed by top journalist (5) 26 Amerinds at home with change almost (5) 27 Unfulfilled American writer? (3) 28 Try Brooklands for English tourist attraction (7,6)

DOWN

1 Lawyers working for peer (5) 2 Values end of letter? (7) 3 Soprano and wind player getting the bird (9) 4 Stand in comfort on left (5) 5 This set rubbished believers (7) 6 New route planned around country for a foreigner (9) 7 Finish up in endless pain needing treatment? It may start with this (4,3,7) 8 Cook perhaps put nuts in starter by hand (7,7) 15 Box at Lord’s perhaps for Jack Hill (9) 17 Quiet lawyer taken in by soldier, a teaser (3,6) 19 Male offspring accepting a military award is a blighter (2-3-2) 20 Girl is rarely aimless (7) 22 Sort of insect found in jam (5) 24 Colleagues are against cut (5)